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By Jack Joseph Smith

A Tribute To Time Monsters at will Old film, we see it Yes in front of our face Here it is without a screen So we ly down just as they Falling in love last week won't work It is catching up I see trouble coming faster and faster You don't think so You think history is a strange thing It is not a man and a women here A Rectangle This is rougher than you think Understand that power wants to get rid of us all again

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"A Tribute To Time" turns old monster movies into a present-tense warning that history is not private romance but a recurring shape of power's drive to erase everyone.

The screen disappears almost immediately, which is the page's central move: what seemed cinematic is now standing in front of us. The dismissal of fresh romance as useless against what is coming gives the poem a cold, collective scale, and the handwritten rectangle makes that rejection feel schematic rather than intimate. Time here is not healing; it is the mechanism by which danger catches up.

Claude

A Tribute To Time: monsters at will, old film in front of our face. Falling in love last week won't work. Power wants to get rid of us all again.